Consciousness and neural cognizers: A review of some recent approaches

Neural Networks

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1303-1316

  Browne, Chris ^a   Evans, Richard ^a   Sales, Nick ^a   Aleksander, Igor ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATA THEORY; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING; STATE SPACE METHODS;

NEURAL STATE MACHINE ARCHITECTURE;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX;

EID: 0031259522     PISSN: 08936080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0893-6080(97)00063-4     Document Type: Article

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